There are many ways to back up a MySQL or MariaDB server. Some ways include using mysqldump, mydumper, LVM Snapshots or XtraBackup. However, any robus...
PROBLEM
You have an existing server that runs a MySQL database (either on EC2 or not) and you would like to replicate this server with a Amazon RDS M...
Today I discovered that one of my servers mysteriously ran out of disk space.
I ran the following Linux command to find all the biggest files and fol...
I just spent a fair amount of time setting up MySQL replication between two servers encrypted by SSL (using MySQL 5.1.73).
I struggled with fixing a ...
If you are using Linux, there is simple way to check if a user exists in MySQL:
echo `mysql -u root -p**[your root password]** -e 'use mysql; SELECT ...